WAGEWORKER
Folk. Ins is a directory of the Trades
and Labor Unions of Lincoln and vicinity?
Lccal secretaries are respectfully asked
to report any changes or corrections
herein, to the end that an accurate and
convenient directory be maintained.
WILL M. MAUPIN, EDITOR
I"i Very Last Call
CENTRAL LABOR UNION Meets sec
.fmd and fourth Tuesday evenings,
Uruse's hall. President, O. M. Rudy.
IMS O. Secretary, F. A. Kates. 1020 K.
Treasurer T. W. Evans. 12S South
Eleventh.
LABOR UNION DIRECTORY.
LABOR TeMPLE DIRECTORY Meets
everv Monday evening. 127 North
Twelfth street. President. J. W. Dick
son. University Place. Secretary. Fred
Ihringer. Sixteenth and D streets, Lincoln.
MUSICIANS PROTECTIVE UNION. No.
63 Meets first and third Sunday morn
ings, Bruse's Hall. President. Wm.
Pinnev. 125 South Sixteenth. Record
ing Secretary, TV. C. Norton. 1S33 North
Twentv-tifth. Financial Secretary, N.
A. Otis. 223 Q.
-vt in.iruucu D , DC DC KJ A 1
Meets first ami third Wednesday even
ing. Bohana's hall. President. R. L.
MoBride. l4s Q. Recording Secretary.
Roy Ward. 1210 O. Financial Secre
tary. Roy Swinker. 1010 O.
BARTENDERS' LEAGUE, No. 399
Meets '.hird Sunday. 10 a. m.. Carpen
ters' hall. President, William Brandt.
1225 R. Recording Secretary, Henry
Ehlers. Financial Secretary. H. E.
Sundean. 1S44 P.
LEATHERWORKERS ON HORSE
GOODS. No. 29 Meets first and third
Tuesdays. Bruses hall. President.
Fred Lewis. 216 South Sixteenth. Sec-
" retarv-Treasurer, Peter Smith, 226
South Eleventh.
CIGARMAKERS, No. 143 Meets every
Mond.iy evening. 1036 O. President.
T. W. Evans. 12S South Eleventh.
Secretary, John Stelner, 122 South
Tenth.
BOILERMAKERS' BROTHERHOOD. No.
97 Meets second and fourth Wednes
tiav evenings. Carpenters' hall. Presi
dent. J. C. Ornnt. Ninth and U streets.
Recording Secretary. P. S. Sherman.
22 P street. Financial Secretary, J.
Bockoven.
BLACKSMITHS AND HELPERS. No.
163 M-ets first and third Tuesday
evenings. Campbell's hall, Havelock.
Fresident. R. O. Wagner, Havelock.
Secretary. E. B. Bilson. Havelock.
BUILDING TRADES SECTION.
Published Weekly at 137 No. 14th
St., Lincoln, Neb. One Dollar a Year.
Entered as second-class matter April
21, 1904, at the postoffice at Lincoln,
Xeb., under the Act of Congress ol
March 3rd, 1879.
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BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL
WORKERS. No. 265 Meets every
Thursday evening. 1036 O street.
President. C. M. Anderson, 202S Q.
Keeording Secretary. G. E. Vennum.
14i0 P. Financial Secretary. W. L.
Mayer. 2225 Q.
PLUMBERS AND GASFITTERS, No.
fc8 Meets every Monday evening. Car
renters' hall. President. Ed English.
1913 V. Recording Secretary, Oeorge
Chir-man. 329 North Eleventh. Finan
cial Secretary. Charles Burns. 848
North Twenty-sixth.
PAINTERS AND DECORATORS. No.
IS Meets every Thursday evening.
Carpenters" hall. President. Charles
Jennings. 193S S. Recordings Secretary.
Wm. Wilkinson. 2100 N. Financial
Secretary, Perry Jennings, 1936 S.
CARPENTERS AND JOINERS. No.
10&5 Meets every Tuesday evening.
"rrntrs' hall, 130 North Tenth.
President. F. B. Naracong. 130 South
Twenty-eighth street. Recording Sec
retary. C. H. Chase. SnoS North Thir
tieth. Financial Secretary. J. W. Tick
snn. 317 West St. Paul street. University
Place.
BRICKLAYERS AND MASONS No. 2
Meets every Friday evening. Carpen
ters' hall. President. E. L. Simon. 2245
E. Recording Secretary, p. W. Smith.
P.. F. l. 14. Financial Secretary, C. H.
Meyers, SiO North Eleventh.
RAILROAD BROTHERHOODS.
BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE EN
GINEERS. Division No. 98 Meets sec
ond and fourth Sunday. Chief En
gineer. J. S. McCoy, 1203 U street.
First Assistant Engineer. F. D. Palmer,
7;S South Tenth street. Second Assist
ant Engineer, H. Wiggenjost, Court
House.
BOILERMAKERS' BROTHERHOOD. No.
119 Meets second and fourth Friday
evenings. A. O. U. W. hall. 1007 O.
President. Charles Peterson. 1402 Jack
son. Havelock. Secretary. Tom Duffy.
Indiana and Touzalin avenues, Have
lock.
MACHINISTS' ASSOCIATION. No. 698
Meets tirst Friday in Havelock. third
Friday at A. O. U. W. hall. Lincoln.
President. J. A. M.ilstead. Havelock.
secretary, c II. Lingle, 829 North SeV'
enteenth.
BROTHERHOOD OF RAILWAY CAR
MEN Meets first and third Saturday
evenings, a. .. i'. w. nan. president.
H. T. Sexson. 1631 North Twenty
fourth. Recording Secretary. C. E.
Cox. 2729 W. Financial Secretary, G.
i. iuuwig, jjj. coutn eeventn.
BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE
FIREMEN AND ENGINEERS, No. 179
Meets second and fourth Sunday
niiemoons. a. ki. l . . nan. blaster,
H. Kurt. S21 North Twelfth. Secre
tary, j. K. Kouinson. 2il Q.
BROTHERHOOD OF RAILWAY TRAIN
MEN. No. 170 Meets second nnd fourth
Sunday afternoons. Bohanan's hall.
Master. J. I. Andrews. 1736 O. Secre
tary. l. J. cooper. 2126 South Ninth
OUR TICKET TO DATE.
For President
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
of Nebraska.
For Vice-President
JOHN WORTH KERN
of Indiana.
For Representative, Lancaster
WILLIAM C. NORTON
of Lincoln.
AN ANNOUNCEMENT.
The Morning Journal and the Even
ing News have editorially announced
that in future neither of them will pub
lish liquor advertising in any form.
This, under all the circumstances, was
the consistent course for the Journal
and the News to take. The Wage
worker has never cared to carry this
class of advertising, although it is legi
timate enough. With this introduction
The Wageworker submits the follow
ing proposition to the management of
the Journal and the News:
If the Journal and the News will do
nate to the Labor Temple Building
fund twenty-five per cent of the
amount that it has received from
liquor advertising in all forms
since the date of the first issue of The
Wageworker, this humble little labor
newspaper will donate to the Labor
Temple building fund 50 per cent of
the amount it has received from liquor
advertising. If this offer is accepted
The Wageworker will agree to refuse
hereafter to accept all-liquor advertising.
BROTHERHOOD OF SWITCHMEN, No.
120 Meet first Sunday at S p. m.. sec
ond Sunday at 2 pi m.. Carpenters'
bail. President. U. S. Swisher. 2747
Sumner. Recording Seci-etary. George
Ray. 1202 Knox. Financial Secretary.
J. Johnson, 2313 D.
PRINTING TRADES SECTION.
ALLIED PRINTING TRADES COUN
CIL Meets third Wednesday evening.
Carpenters' hall. President. G. E.
Lockor. 1209 South street. Secretnrv-
Triasuier. J. II. Brooks, 700 North
. "illth Street.
POGRAPHICAL UNION. No. 209
Me, is tirst Mindar, 2 p. m.. Fraternity
ran. r-resmenc. j. k. Kaln. 120 Soutli
Thirtieth, lf.-eording Secrctarv. H. W.
Klngaman. i'-'I't Ho'drcge. Financial
Secretary. F. H. Hoi.baid. 1527 Wash
ington.
BOOKBINDERS' BROTHERHOOD. No
150 Metis third Monday evening. Car
penters' hall. President. C. C. Jerome,
ii iu rutn tNixteenm. secretary-neas
titer. Fred Rcss, liul B.
The wind-up of our tremendous sale of the Sterling stock
of clothing and furnishings is drawing near. We have put
all the $35, $30, $25 and $20 suits remaining from this stock
on sale at $8.88 and no better bargains were ever offered.
They will last only a short time, and you'll have to hurry.
The sale has been a wounderful success because the Arm
strong guarantee was behind it.
Our Fall and Winter Stock
Oh, but it will contain things to delight the soul of the
true blue Union Man. We have bought largely more so
than ever of the magnificent Brock line of Union Made
Clothing, and we are satisfied that nothing better was ever
offered to Union Men. This stock is arriving every day and
it will be a feast for Union eyes. Ever hear the story of the
old countryman who put, up at the swell hotel, and after
viewing the magnificent bath room wrote home and de
scribed it, winding up with the assertion that "he could
hardly wait till Saturday Night?" We can hardly wait for
the arrival of all this fine Union Made Clothing we are so
anxious for Union Men to see it.
In the meantime it will pay you to take advantage of
some of the late bargains in Spring and Summer stuffarid
hold them until next Spring.
Armstrong Clothing Company
GOOD CLOTHES MERCHANTS
STEREOTVPERS AND ELECTRO
TVPERS. No. 62 Meets third Wednes
day evening. Carpenters hall. Presi
dent. A. E. Small. 2044 South Nine
teenth. Secretary-Treasurer, Sam
Aken, 227$ Dudley.
CAPITAL AUXILIARY. No. 11 Meets
st eond and fourth Friday afternoons at
heini s of mi mlers. President. Mrs.
F. H. Hebbard. 1527 Washington.
Secretary. Mrs. C. B. Righter. 230S
Iudie. Treasurer. Mrs. Charles Barn
grevtr, 1421 North Twenty-sixth.
PRESSMEN AND ASSISTANTS. No.
to Meets first Wednesday. Carpenters'
hall. Presidtnt. J. II. Brooks. 728
North Eleventh. Recording Secretary,
E. C. Werger. 1"2 N. Financial Secre
tary. W. D. King, 2030 M.
WHAT THEY ARE AIMING AT.
The New York Evening Post Is not
only a very radical opponent of trades
unionism, but is likewise and nat
urally very ardent in its support of
Judge Taft. ,This may explain why
it rejoices so loudly over a recent
decision ol a French court whereby
the secretary of the Electricians'
Union was fined for calling a strike.
The New York Evening Post insists
that the French court was right, and
that the same course of action should
be followed in this country. Under
that course of legal action it would
be made illegal to strike, and every
time men quit work in order to en
force a reform in intolerable condi
tions they would be subjected to fine
and imprisonment. That is a system
of peonage that appeals strongly to
papers and employers of the Xew York
Evening Post and the Battle Creek
Fost stripe. It is virtually the sys
tem that Julge William H. Taft
sought to establish when by judicial
ukase he told the engineers and the
firemen that they must not quit work
on pain of being adjudged guilty of
contempt. It is the system that will
obtain in this country if organized
labor does not stand solidly together
and administer a lasting rebuke to
the men and the party that is seeking
to foist it upon the country.
Such a system would be worse than
chattel slavery. la slavery days the
black man received no money wages,
but he did receive his board, his
clothes, his cabin and meJical atten
tion. He at least was assured of a
roof to cover him, food for his stom
ach and clothing for his back as long
as he lived. Under the system advo
cated by the New York Evening Post
and originally instituted in a degree
bv Judge Taft, the "free worklngman"
would receive meagre wages enough
t.i keep hint from actual want if he
was properly economical only so
long as he was able to deliver the
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life
work demanded, and then he would
be thrown out and left to depend upon
the cold -charity of the world. Any
attempt to rid himself of such a sys
tem of slavery would be followed by
fine and imprisonment
This, it seems, is what the chief
supporters of Judge Taft are aiming
to bring about. Every unfair employer
of any prominence whatever is en-
thusistically supporting Taft Van
Cleave, Post, Parry, Otis and fight
ing organized labor.
Under which flag, Mr.. Union Man?
LEGISLATION.
A republican contemporary makes
the broad assertion that the republi
can party is responsible for all the
"reform legislation now on the sta
tute books." The assertion is made
in the course of an editorial beseech
ing union men to stand Dy Taft and the
republican platform.
The assertion is untrue. It was not
a republican legislature that enacted
the Australian ballot law now in force
in Nebraska.
It was a republican legislature that
enacted the present iniquitous gar
nishee law.
It was not a republican legislature
that enacted the first freight rate regu
lation law in Nebraska.
It was a republican legislature that
enacted the law under which the con
victs in the Nebraska state prison are
practically sold to a contractor who
uses their labor in competition with
the labor of free and honest men.
All this is mentioned, not to make
it appear that in the past the republi
can party has neglected nor the dem
ocratic party fostered the interests of
labor. It is offered merely to prove
that in order to elect "Injunction Bill"
the republican organs will stoop to
barefaced falsehood.
A HOME PRODUCTS EXPOSITION.
The trades unions of Lincoln sepa
rately, and the Central Labor Union
representing the whole body of orga
nized labor in this community, should
give the proposed Home Products ex
position a most hearty support. It is
quite true that in the line of manu
factured goods Lincoin puts out com
paratively -few that are union made,
but the chances are that if we, as
union men, informed ourselves fully
of all the facts we would be a bit
more zealous in our efforts to further
organize this city. But there are sev
eral union-made products turned out
in Lincoln. Among them we might
mention printing ' of all kinds, blank
books, harness, saddles, collars,-cigars,
woodwork and machinery. Among
the non-union products are hats,"
gloves, overalls, shirts, brooms, sheet
metal products, confectionery, brooms.
We can increase the number of
union men and women if we set about
the task intelligently and earnestly.
We can make sure that future manu
facturing establishments will be fair.
Such an exposition will be an educator
not only to the union men and women
but of the general public as well.
Let us make it plain to the general
public that organized labor is en
thusiastically in favor of any move
that will tend to make Lincoln a big
ger and better city. Let us aid in
bringing as many manufacturing es
tablishments to Lincoln as possible,
drawing the line only at those which
use girl labor at starvation wages.
Let us made It known that any fac
tory employing men will be welcome,
I and v that we will gladly take our
chance on unionizing the factory after
they have started.
The Lincoln Ad club, which is fur
thering the Home Products exposition,
should be early assured that organized
labor will give
hearty support.
the enterprise its
Charles W. Post has been admitted
to membership in a "labor union." It
is an open shop ' union" that does not
believe in its members striking to en
force demands for decent treatment;
it is not affiliated with te American
Federation of Labor; nobody ever
heard, of it until it took Post into
the fold, and nobody will hear of it in
the future save as Post holds it up
for a model "union." It is to trades
unionism w"hat Post's marital esca
pades are to men and women who be
lieve in the socity of the marriage tie.
The supreme court has decided that
a railroad company can discharge a
man for belonging to a unien, and that
a , union can not boycott a railroad
company for blacklisting a union man.
And organized labor is asked to quiet
ly submit to that sort of thing and
entertain the' highest respect for the
court so holding.
Will Norton may be for or against
c,ounty option, as seems best to him.
The Waegworker is merely advocating
the election of a trades unionist to
the legislature. Mr. Norton's position
on the county option question is of
absolutely no moment to this labor
newspaper. - .
Chairman Hitchcock of the republi
can committee says that it ' is his
belief that the republican party will
get its share of the labor vote. In that
one particular the Hitchcock belief is
quite in line with our own.
Home Products" show and it will
organized labor will gladly put its
work along side that of the product
of the unorganized. In fact, organized
labor is always glad to seze that opportunity.
Now if organized ' labor will vote
as solidity on the first Tuesday after
the first Monday in November as it
marched on the first Monday in Sep
tember, there will be some encurage
ment in the outlook. ,
- The right to quit work is as Inalien
able as the right to work. Judge
Taft sent an engineer to jail for hav
ing the nerve to step down from the
cab in the face of the Taft order to
keep on working.
The time is near at hand when anion
men will be purchasing their winter
clothing. The genuine unon man will
insist upon having the label on the
goods.
The Model License League" win
not make much headway among union
men as long as it persists in patroniz
ing "rat" print shops.
Among the many ways of getting
rid of the saloon evil there is the one
of offering something better that is al
so more attractive.
Abuse is not argument, and mali
cious falsehood is never logical.
"You are perpetually enjoined," says
Mr. Van Cleave. Forever is a long
time.
If the Lincoln Ad Club organizes a
- The Lincoln Ad Club has started oft
on the right foot, and should have- the
united support of every citizen who
wants to push Lincoln to the front.
Unanimous demand for the union
label will make the boycott and th
sympathetic stirke unnecessary.